Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:09:13PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:36:54 +0100, Andreas Metzler
> <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> >I do not think that is really necessary. I doubt there are lots of new
> >qmail installations nowadays by people that are not aready well versed
> >in its configuration.
> 
> Newbies ask "which MTA to use", are lured in by qmail fanboys and then
> fail in configuring qmail.

Every MTA needs to be properly configured; and the failure to do so will
be problematic in *every* case. Having a default installation that does
not cause backscatter to the rest of the Internet and beyond is the
responsibility of the Debian maintainer. This is the case for every
Debian package, and it is no different for qmail.

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